Wednesday, January 9, 2008

My husband cooked dinner tonight. He put some white fish fillets on a baking sheet. He looked around for something to use as seasoning. After perusing the spice jars and the shelves in the refrigerator, the best idea he came up with was lemon-lime Kool Aid.Yep, he poured a packet of sugar-free lemon-lime Kool Aid on the fish and baked it.I walked through the kitchen, as he took the tray out of the oven, and saw the neon green fillets."What the crap did you put on the fish???""It's a surprise.""Seriously! What IS that???""Seasoning.""Ummm, I have to run some errands right now. I'll be home after dinner."I took my oldest daughter and we ran out the door went to the mall to exchange some clothes.My husband called me shortly after we arrived at the store and said, "You were right. The fish was gross. We're eating pizza now."In case anyone has ever wondered if lemon-lime Kool Aid would make a good subsitute for fresh lemon juice, the answer is a resounding NO.I only wish I'd thought to take a picture of this culinary creation.

110 comments:

LOL!!!!!!! Sounds like something my dad or brother might try! Seriously is it a male thing to always have to put unusal combinations of food/drinks/spices in food? Although I can't complain...cause when they are cooking that means I have the night off of cooking and MOST of the time it doesn't taste too bad and it hasn't killed anyone ...yet;)

So pickles weren't enough, now your family is putting Kool aid on other foods? Maybe he just used the wrong flavor. Lemon lime would probably go better on trout. Maybe he should have used cherry, watermelon or kiwi strawberry.We had fish tonight also. I wish I had thought of Kool aid. What flavor do you think would taste the best on salmon?I think you should re-write that classic book by Dr. Seuss, as "Green eggs and fish" "I will not eat green eggs and fish I will not eat them on a dish. You may eat them if you wish But I think pizza is more delish"

Maybe you should start training the kids to cook...just in case you die of overwork. I have nightmares of my passing on and my children subsisting on hotdogs and pretzels. My husband is a wonderful man who often helps with the laundry, but his cooking skills lack a certain something.

ROFL! I wish you'd snapped a picture, too. I've gotta say, I love your hubby. At least he cooks. Mine would starve to death, or eat only chips and candy, if I wasn't around to fix meals. Give him a hug from me and maybe a copy of this book. (I'd give one to my husband, but he doesn't know how to use the can opener!)

When my husband "cooks" I get asked 20 questions about how to open a can of soup. It drives me crazy. If I'm going end up with neon fish, I think I'll take the questions! Maybe he thought it would go with the kool-aid pickles.

Oh my! That reminds me of a time in college when my boyfriend (now hubby) and I were eating mac and cheese and m&m's were nearby. After snacking on those while we were eating, we decided that the salty and sweet tastes went together so well, we should actually mix some m&m's in... UGH. It looked gross (a nice shade of pukey gray) and it tasted worse. The funny thing is, this was a actually a sober college moment!

Usually I burst out laughing by the end of your post...This one? Didn't make it past the last four words in the first paragraph!Good think I wasn't drinking my morning coffee - I'd have sprayed it all over my keyboard for sure!!!

Thank you for making my day! I've just started teaching my husband how to cook (now that I'm 38 weeks pregnant, I figured it was about time). So far he hasn't done anything without me in the room with him... and after reading that, I'm glad!

Dawn,I thought I'd share my newest discovery - Crest White Strips. It helps take my mind off the diet. While the (@#*^) scale won't budge, my teeth are getting whiter. They aren't cheap, about $30, but they are a lot cheaper then zoom at the dentist which is about $300. It's nice to see results somewhere. And hey, maybe my teeth will become so blinding white that no one will notice my butt.Patty

p.s. Question on comment etiquette - Do you still need to put in "Dawn," and "Patty" or is it understood?

Oh my GOSH, that's awesome!! I wish you had taken a picture too. I also wish you had tasted it, then we'd have the pleasure of reading exactly what it had tasted like. Although, I have tasted koolaid right out of the packet - there is definitely a REASON why they want you to add SIX CUPS of sugar (or whatever ungodly amount it is!)

Tell your husband for the future - orange juice. The juice of one orange (or about 1/4 cup) plus some season salt; broil. My wife doesn't like fish (unless it's deep-fried), but she liked it like that.

ROFL! This sounds completely like something my husband would have tried before we started watching Food Network. The only difference is, sugar junky that he is, he would have added the sugar to the mix.

Dawn, LOL This is WAY TOO FUNNY! I wish my mom were still alive so I could share this recipe with her! My mom taught gourmet cooking for 27 years - she was an AWESOME cook. She would have gotten a good laugh from that one! On a lighter note, it might be possible to still use the kool aid, but maybe only a quarter teaspoon as a little sweetner... you might ask him to go back to the kitchen and test to see what happens when you use much less? I hope it was good pizza! And give that husband of yours a big hug for trying - its nice to have a husband that cooks too!!!! My husband loves to BBQ, but that is about it... so we eat BBQ all year around at this house - so I get some help with meals!Thanks for your great stories!Pam (Seattle)

Sounds like your husband and mine learned from the same chef! My dh made a concoction of ground chuck and who knows what else and put a can of green peas in it. I guess he stirred it so much the peas dissolved and turned everything green. Now I'm a very picky eater and couldn't bring myself to try it. The kids said it was good. Later they told me he paid them to say that! This from a man who ate stale frito sandwiches before we married. He won't cook for me anymore; I guess I crushed his spirit. He does take me out to eat occassionally though so all is well.

My husband likes to experiment with eggs and omelettes on Sunday mornings. Once we had mint and potato omelettes. One time he planned to make plain scrambled eggs but instead of a little milk in the eggs, he grabbed the flavored coffee creamer. Nothing like vanilla hazlenut eggs to start your day right!

Although that was a waste of what I am sure would have been a good meal minus the kool-aid, I almost wish sometimes my husband was inept in the kitchen...he is the male version of Martha Stewart...I call him Stewart Martha...

Have you ever considered renting your hubby out to pump up women's self-esteem in the kitchen? What dates does he have open?

This reminds me of when my husband decided make me some fresh 'banana cookies'. He worked all evening on them (he used a basic sugar cookie recipe and just kept adding things). At around 1:00 a.m. he woke me from a sound sleep to try his new creation. They were GROSS!!!! I love bananas a lot, and they taste great in bread - but they were never intended for a cookie :-0

Hi Dawn, LOL, I wonder if just plain lemonaide koolaide would have worked better? He could add some green food colouring next time just for fun. He could say he caught it in the green river you have there. Kristine in Michigan.

LOL, I'm not the best cook but a fool proof way of cooking fish that works for me is: Brush fish with oil; sprinkle on salt, pepper and garlic powder; then bake. Tastes great and uses only things I always have on hand!

Just curious if your husband reads your blog. It drives me crazy when my wife tells our friends/families about the stupid things I do, you multiply that by thousands. Maybe it helps that you also blog about the crazy things you do.

I recently read the following (it's not about me), and reading your post about neon green fish reminded me of it... I post it here for you and your readers' perusing pleasure:

"This happened several years ago. My husband had just started his business (lawn and landscape) that year, and winter was very slow. He was getting restless and bored during the day when I was at work, so he took up baking, and started bringing my coworkers and me cookies almost daily. One day, he decided to make meringue cookies, but I guess he couldn't find the whisk attachment for the mixer to use on the egg whites. I got home early that day, and found him whisking the egg whites with a whisk that he had duct-taped to his power drill.

I'm not kidding. It got the job done, though. Best meringue I evertasted!!! He'll never live that one down though. Gives a whole new meaning to the term redneck, doesn't it?!?!?!"

I think you husband deserves a pat on the back for even realizing the fish needed seasoning! That's pretty good for a man I think, even though it did not turn out well he at least tried. This was one of your funniest posts ever and I read it to my husband last night!! LOL. Your husband is very sweet to cook too. :)

ROFLMAO OMG I'm reading through some of the comments and am just rolling! Men who don't know how to use a can opener has to be one of the funniest things ever. I may be placing unfair stereotypes on them, but aren't they supposed to be good at power tools?? LOL Ok, ok... My husband is like Joe.. he'd totally do something like that. Though, he'd have probably tasted the Koolaid first. And if it was the sugar-free kind, was it sweetened at all? Because if not, OMG that super tart bitterness couldn't have been very good when he actually tasted the fish. LOL still..... toooo funny!!

I remember when the dishwashing liquid Sunlight came out and the manufacturers mailed sample packets to consumers. The packet labels said something about "lemon", and people started complaining because their samples of this new salad dressing tasted like soap.

Hey, experimentation can be fun, sometimes edible and even occasionally tasty!

Our 'tween daughter goes all out in the kitchen. Her latest were PANCLODS, distant cousin to the pancake. I told her I would eat one if she would let me post the picture....and they weren't bad (with a gallon of syrup)!

My dh's never-live-it-down concoction was tuna-peas-mac'n'cheese. The kids looked at me with big sad eyes when I got home and their daddy had made that for lunch. I couldn't help but feel sorry for the poor little critters. I wouldn't have eaten it if I were home either. Can you have your hubby post his reasoning behind the seasoning?

LOL! That sounds like something my husband might try in an attempt to "improve" my cooking. He always gives me great ideas about how I can do my job as a SAHM better, shortly before he plops down on the couch to watch TV for a couple of hours!

Haha! My 12 year old brother cooks and even HE knows that green kool-aid and fish do not work. Tell your hubby to try orange kool-aid next time. Seriously, reading this just made me thankful that I do not like fish!

OMG! I thought my boyfriend was the only one with "clever" ideas like that. He thought Country Time lemonade mix would be a good substitute for sugar in cookies. Genius, right? I might have thrown it up if I could've gotten one down. It was like trying to swallow a sour cotton ball.

Reminds me of my own little cooking debacle as a young teen. Lemon Chicken. Except that nobody told me lime doesn't substitute straight across for lemon. Everything looked perfect, but that chicken was SO sour, not even our cats and dog would touch it... and they ate anything.

Too funny!!! Good thing the kids didn't eat it otherwise they would have had NEON poop. When my daughter was little she loved grape koolaid. She started having neon green poops. We finally discovered it was the dye in the grape koolaid. Needless to say, we quit giving it to her. My husband is generally a good cook, but he also likes to experiment. He made a dish one night that I would have thought was beef stronganoff, but when we tasted it, it had a very sweet, odd taste. YUCK!! He hasn't made that dish since. THANK GOODNESS!!

Love it. It reminds me of one of my worst cooking episodes ever. It was during my newlywed days and I made something that turned out pretty bad. My sweet husband said in a serious tone "Honey, that was really delicious ... but please don't make it for a really long time, OK?"

About the kool-aid. Does it really need SIX CUPS of sugar? Isn't that stuff pre-sweetened and you just add water? We had kool-aid here in Australia a while ago, don't know if it's still available here, but I remember we just mixed it with water. I read your blog a lot but haven't commented before. I love your family.

Oh my - not only did your post crack me up, but it made me VERY grateful for my own husband. He's a SAHD - he cleans, does laundry, takes care of our littlest all day and picks the older two up from school, AND he cooks. Quite well, in fact. I may have to help him with ideas or how-to's now and then, but he would never put kool-aid on fish - at least, not without asking first!

I love it! (Both the fish and your Vacation reference.) It just makes me laugh. And it sounds like what my son mixes on Webkinz to make gunk.

Then again, when I was in high school, my best friend and I would take ingredients and mix concoctions then cook them -- fortunately no meat or other main dish type ingredients. A couple turned out ok but mostly ... I think "gunk" does sum it up.

Ok well, thank goodness my husband does all the cooking!! You know what I thought of when reading this? "It's going to be fine, she's going to realise it tasted good, it sounds like a great innovative idea to season with kool-aid, I wonder what I can season with Kool-aid" Then you revealed it really was gross, and I was surprised! lol. I'm just that kind of experimenter, it seems like a good idea till you taste it :)

My experimental fish story? Fish stir fry. I grilled up a bunch of fish, added veggies and rice and everything like a chinese stir fry. It actually tasted fanstastic, and I hate fish! lol. I have tried twice more to make the same dish, and i tell you, fish stir fry is sooo gross!! I have no idea what I did right that first time, I remember I was starving and on my own to even thaw the fish, but was I that starving that it tasted good too??

You always make me laugh! I laughed even harder this time, because this is SO my husband! He LOVES cooking, but I never let him, because he likes to make things... interesting. A few weeks ago, he wanted sweet and sour chicken. We had no chicken, however. His solution? Batter and fry baby carrots! Yum!